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to raid or not to raid?

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at the moment,i have 2x80gb hitachi sataII's on raid 0(128k stripe,4k cluster(windows doh)).

sometimes first thing in a morning,when it boots,i get an error.it says one of the drives is 511gb.and i have to reboot a couple of times for it to work.i am gonna re-install l8r today,and my question is to raid again or not?.i have lots of games on and will have to re-install the lot,which i would'nt have to if it were'nt raided.

if i raid it again,would i be better off with a 16k stripe as well?.

thx guys.:D
 
I'd say no, because it doesnt really add a vital benefit to performance, but still creates a lot of issues that can be completely avoided by having seperate, unraided drives.
 
It can create a lot of issues, but if you want to noticably cut loading times, go for it. Remember there is a higher risk of losing data, if one drive fails you lose all data accross both drives (without expensive recovery).

Edit: I think a 64k stripe is better to use if you can.
 
deffinetly to risky for me, i'd hate losing everything, but yea it does help but can go horribly wrong
 
well actually todays games donot like being run off a different install. ive found this with q4 and bf2 especially. i personally backup anything important to at least 2 locations to prevent data loss.

i would do it just keep everything important backed up.
 
as a whole, disk subsystem is the weakest one in today's system, so i think raid 0 is sort of vital to speed up your system.
in the same time, it's true that raid 0 can lead to unexpectable problems.
so as mine suggestions, back up important files through optical recording, then go ahead with raid 0
 
raid 1 is designed for safeguarding data. it will greatly slower down the system.
 
You need 4 disks for RAID 01 or 10. You could use RAID 3 though, which is basically RAID0 plus a parity disk.

Or RAID5, which spreads the parity information across all disks.
 
as a whole, disk subsystem is the weakest one in today's system, so i think raid 0 is sort of vital to speed up your system.
in the same time, it's true that raid 0 can lead to unexpectable problems.
so as mine suggestions, back up important files through optical recording, then go ahead with raid 0

Thumbs up to you catstone!

But RAID5 is the perfect compromise as it protects your data at the same time as it supports RAID0 STRIPE logic.
 
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